My newest venture
 

I really like these cards and the George Millers, although tough, are becoming more affordable for the Hall of Famers.

Good to know.:D

That's a great group of cards, all with eye appeal, congrats! How many do you have now?

Gm
 

Geez, Bob! Could there BE nicer looking PSA 2s! Nice pickup!

Charles Ray in The Busher

nice Bob...the 2's are nicer than the 3?!?!

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...le%20wheel.JPG
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...20McDaniel.JPG
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...02%20cards.JPG
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...lmann%20PC.jpg

I'm tapped!
 

Just had to have it!

A few cards to tide me over until after the holidays:

From Mr. Jonathan Steele, from the Rudy Strejc collection:
<img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8210/8162130289_ccf8b7655b.jpg" width="298" height="500" alt="Weaver_Obak_front"></a><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7121/8162163582_b410a6c2b9.jpg" width="303" height="500" alt="Reddick_front"></a><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8350/8162130999_44cb877bc1.jpg" width="291" height="500" alt="Dillon_front"></a><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8203/8162163974_6135db59ea.jpg" width="293" height="500" alt="Baum_front"></a>

From Sterling Sports Auction:
<img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7272/8162130943_8015077f76.jpg" width="307" height="500" alt="McGraw_M116_front"></a><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7262/8162130483_98d8221a6a.jpg" width="307" height="500" alt="Schlei_front"></a>

Thank you to you both!

Thanks Matthew. 12. I picked up 4 a couple of weeks ago, these 4 Sunday on ebay and I had 4 others.

Thanks Peter and Jimi. The backs are all clean and nice on the 4 cards. I agree that the 2s are nicer than the 3 which had some color flecking.

Well, with Sam Breadon being on the pre-integration committee's ballot. I decided to pick up this 1931 Metropolitan Studios of him just in case. Yeah, it looks like hell, but it was cheap and the only one I could find. I also picked up the 1962 Topps Ruth card with Ruppert on it. Although, I honestly have no idea what are the first "cards"(loose term) of these guys...

A couple new ones.

t206
 

Thanks Doug (Phillies*phan)
Merrill

november pickups
 

T205 Master set now 1 card away
 

I just picked up the Wilhelm "suffered" card. Im working on a T205 Master set which is every card in the set including all back variations. And at least 1 card from every brand/factory.

Just 1 card to go, but I am not sure I will ever get it. The Hoblitzel "no stats" might just be to scarce and expensive.

Here is my latest addition:
http://www.pbase.com/peterbosox/image/147195183.jpg

T205
 

Congrats on the t205 adventure, and best of luck on the last card find! I'm very jealous!

This beauty just showed up Monday. It was nice to come home after work and find it on the table. I've wanted one of these for a long time.

Thanks,

AndyH


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C.1915 Babe Ruth Real Photo PC
 

Just got this, thanks Jeff! This is the only one known of its kind, and 1 of 4 different Real Photo PC's in this C.1915 set.

Pete- I just sent you an extensive PM with some history on your great Ruth PC, photo taken at Majestic Field in Hot Springs, AR. With the current PM problems let me know if you did not get it and I will try a different method.

Pete, that is an amazing PC of Ruth!!!

can I get a copy of that too? Sounds very interesting.

+1

There shouldn't be anymore PM problems as of now. Thanks for helping. And a few more new pickups.

http://luckeycards.com/pwunc1921universaltoycobb.jpg

http://luckeycards.com/phunc1946propagandasruth.jpg

Oh heck why not. As many of you know I am SABR geek so seeing something like this is great fun!

The photo PC is a shot of Babe at Majestic Field in Hot Springs, AR and is thought to be from Spring Training in 1915 or 1916. Majestic Field was located at the site of the current Boys & Girls Club and a baseball field sits on the very same site though for 50 years a swimming pool was at that location.

Majestic Field was created in 1909 following an argument between the Red Sox, Pirates, Dodgers and Phillies over the use of Whittington Park Field or Ban Johnson Field which was located near the downtown area at the north end of the trolley line. The Red Sox who stayed at the Majestic Hotel built their new field at the south end of the trolley line and named it for their hotel.

Part of each team's agreement with the city was free transportation on the trolley system.

A decade or so back this series of PCs turned up in a auction, perhaps on eBay? A reproduction of the set made it to our local Advertising & Promotions Commission which has done a wonderful job of promoting the birth of Spring Training here in 1886. Each year they issue a set of postcards with images of our history, there have been a dozen or so Bill Clintons and about 6 or 7 Babe Ruth and Honus Wagner issues. The PC Pete has which is amazing was one of the images reproduced years ago along with the others in the set.

This past March we launched the Hot Springs Historic Baseball Trail, a series of 27 large cast plaques honoring specific sites around town where significant baseball events occuered from 1886 to 1952. Some of the sites in incude each of the five fields used and such events as Ruth's 565 foot homerun on St. Patrick's Day 1918. Through a barn storming tour with Campanella and Robinson in 1952. By the way Ruth historian Bill Jenkinson sites the 1918 Ruth homer as the true turning point in Red Sox leaderships decision to let him play full-time. One of my favorites is the plaque at the site of the high school gymnasium where Wagner taught the school team how to play basketball. Walter Johnson was reported in the local paper to have joined in after enjoying a morning of hot baths.

During the event in March the A&P hosted a luncheon to honor the SABR members from all over that helped put the project together including Jenkinson from Philadelphia, Tim Reid from Florida and Don Duren of Dallas. Each member was given a framed set of copies of the PC set that Pete's card is from.

I do want to stress that the copies of the PCs were more black & white than sepia and were much larger. Sorry for my rambling, hope some of you got some fun out of it.

no no's
 

kind of hard to follow the previous post but.. the 202 is new.

Holy cow! That is a great postcard! Are there images available of the others in the set?

Outstanding Ruth, Pete.

Ruth Real Photo PC Set
 

Mike, thanks for all the info. I really appreciate it!! Here are 2 of the other images. The last image I will post when I get it in my hands. It has Ruth in a black sweater, sitting on the bench with a couple of players.

Pete those postcards are amazing! The copies made here look like they are new and can not be confused for the real things. Just wanted to make that clear for everybody.

Gabby Street American Beauty T205
 

Many thanks to Mike Taylor for this beautiful Gabby Street T205 with an American Beauty back.

It will make a nice companion piece to my T206 Street catching with an American Beauty back.


Thanks again Mike!


Patrick

Not a bb card but happy to finally pickup a decent complete example.

http://i.imgur.com/e9tWq.jpg

Just arrived...

http://packgeek.files.wordpress.com/...rig_double.jpg

1937 San Diego PC (w/ Ted Williams)
 

wow, nice Gehrig! I hate to be the one to follow that pick-up, but I did get a pretty nice card that fits my collecting focus:

Thank you, Derek! Great PC!

C'mon, Pete. I really needed that Ruth PC for MY collection. Give a guy a break since you already have the other one.

Sorry to say that I had your old one previously and consigned it to REA a couple of years ago where it sold for only $5K. I was disappointed at the time but much more so now that thewy have been selling in the $15K range. Just to add, I can't afford that kind of price anyway..........

Tenney
 

Tenney

I don't typically go after strip cards, but I loved the images on these two. Thanks for letting me share...

http://packgeek.files.wordpress.com/...er_double1.jpg
http://packgeek.files.wordpress.com/...bb_double1.jpg

Hey Phil,
Lol I'm sure it would look good in your collection. I saw yours, which was the only other known PC which was an SGC 50. The one I picked up was the SGC 60 in Goodwin last year. Amazingly, the 2 I've added cost me a lot more than 15k per PC if you can believe that, as Ruth anything has skyrocketed. Especially, the really rare items.

http://i1118.photobucket.com/albums/...ams01small.jpg

http://i1118.photobucket.com/albums/...ack01Small.jpg

http://i1118.photobucket.com/albums/...d4201small.jpg

Plus 2 from the end of October from Sterling:

http://i1118.photobucket.com/albums/...64901small.jpg

http://i1118.photobucket.com/albums/...act01small.jpg

The rarely seen striped hat/shattered glass variation. :)

http://www.ellisburkscollector.com/i...les_kotton.jpg

Beautiful Gehrig, Jeff! Definitely one of my favorites. ;)

Thanks, Pete, for the displaying the new ones in this set. I never knew there were any past that first one. I love those images for the Ruth.

C1915 Ruth PC's
 

Thanks Gary. All 4 PC's(3 Ruth, 1 Hick Cady) were originally purchased from an old private collection some years ago. As far as I know, these are the only 4 images that made up the set.

won this a few months ago but just picked it up...

Added this tough T210 Cantwell this last week.

I can finally scratch this one off my list of toughies!

http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...pictureid=8340

Jaeon,

That Ten Million looks great for an SGC 10. What knocked it down so low? Great pick up.

AndyH


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My pair of Dode Paskerts from the latest Sterling auction. Thanks to Lee for another well run auction and lightning fast, well packaged shipping!